Window-sash construction



July 20 1926. 1,593,539

7 L. J. OSWALD WINDOW SASH CONSTRUCTION Filed August .1 1925 .p--- III /0 gg l 4 iNVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented July 20, 1926.

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LQUIS J. OSWALD, OFELIVIHURST, NEW YORK; MADELINE OSWALD EXECUTRIX OF SAID LOUIS J. OSWALD, DECEASED.

WINDOW-SASH CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed August 1, 1925. Serial No. 47,624.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are To provide an improved window sash construction wherein the counter-balance attaching cord may be secured to a weight and sash while the sash is in service position within the window frame; to provide an improved and novel window sash construction having means for easy access to the weight pocket; and generally to provide in a sash construction novel means for attaching a sash weight cord to a sash.

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Description.

Th details of the invention comprise the ordinary window frame 10 parrying the conventional sash trim 11 equipped with the usual parting bead 12 disposed between the upper and lower sashes, the lower sash of i which is indicated at 13. The sash trim 11 as in the conventional construction, forms the cover for the weight pocket 14: in which the window weights 15 are disposed being in counterbalanced connection with the sash 13 through the medium of the sash cord 16 disposed over a pulley 17 in the upper portion of the trim.

Adjacent the pulleys 17 in the upper portion of the sash trim, the trim is cut away to provide an opening which is filled by a cover piece 18 formed of the cut-out portion of the trim and having a parting head section 19 extended beyond the ends thereof for engagement in the parting bead receiving slot 20 of the trim body. Adjacent the lower portion of the window frame a similar detachable cover section 21 is disposed having its central bead section 22 arranged to form a continuation of the dividing bead 12 on the trim.

- At each side edge from the top, the sash 13 is provided with longitudinally extend ing edge opening slots, one of which is shown at 23 ofadepth sufficient to receive the sash cord 16 therein, the sash terminal of the cord 16 being provided with an enlarged knot 2 1 for edge insertion through a rounded en larged socket 25 formed at the lower end of the slot 23 whereby the sash cord terminal is anchored in the sash.

In assembly of the parts, the window sash 13 is lowered to clear the upper trim cover section 18 which may be removed as illustrated in Figure 1 and the sash then elevated to bring its upper end into registry with 1 the opening in the trim 11. The knotted terminal 2 1 of the sash cord 16 may then be applied in the socket 24 from the side of the sash by manipulation through the opening in the trim and the sash may then be lowered and the sash cord passed over the pulley 17 downwardly in the weight pocket 14. The cover section 18 is then replaced and the sash elevated to clear the lower cover section 21 which may then be removed to enable a workman to attach the lower end of the sash cord 16 to a weight 15 at the lower end of the pocket. When this has been accomplished and the necessary adjustment made in the sash cord tension, the lower cover section 21 is replaced and the sash is mounted in counter-balanced disposition for service. It will be understood that the arrangement of parts as described is also present on the opposite side of the window frame and is applicable to both upper and lower sashes.

Claim In a window sash construction, a window 7 frame, a sash trim permanently disposed in said frame and covering one side of a window weight pocket, a sash slidable in said frame and over said trim, a weight disposed in said pocket, a weight pulley disposed in said trim, a sashcord connecting said sash and weight over said pulley, and rela tively small removable sections formed in and entirely across said trim in the upper and lower portion thereof at points adjacentthe position of the window weight in the raised and lowered positions of the sash, whereby access to the window weight may be had with the sash in service position.

LOUIS J. OSWVALD. 

